An Illinois man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release for kidnapping and killing visiting Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang in 2017.
Prosecutors and Zhang's family had pushed for the death penalty, but a jury decision on that had to be unanimous. If even one juror opposed, then the life sentence was applied.
"However, we accept that he will spend the rest of his life in prison, which still reflects our loss in a meaningful way," he said."We hope that every day he spends in prison he feels the pain and suffering that we feel for the loss of Yingying." Zhang's family after the sentencing pleaded with Christensen to tell authorities what he did with her body to end the family’s torment.
Zhang, who was running late for the apartment meeting, disappeared after getting into the front seat of a car driven by Christensen, which was recorded by security video from a bus stop, prosecutors said.When questioned, Christensen said he couldn’t remember his whereabouts that day, and then three days later changed his story and said he offered an Asian woman a ride, according to a criminal complaint.
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